Medievalists.net » Julian of Norwich http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Julian of Norwich: Mystic, Theologian and Anchoress http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/24/julian-of-norwich-mystic-theologian-and-anchoress/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/24/julian-of-norwich-mystic-theologian-and-anchoress/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2015 22:30:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=59202 Very little is known of her actual life, not even her real name. We do know she wrote two texts in English on her visions and their meaning

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/24/julian-of-norwich-mystic-theologian-and-anchoress/feed/ 0 Virgins, mothers, monsters : late-medieval readings of the female body out of bounds http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/17/virgins-mothers-monsters-late-medieval-readings-female-body-bounds/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/17/virgins-mothers-monsters-late-medieval-readings-female-body-bounds/#comments Tue, 18 Feb 2014 02:32:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47735 This dissertation examines representations of female corporeality in three late-medieval texts: the Pseudo-Ovidian poem, De vetula (The Old Woman); a treatise on human generation erroneously attributed to Albertus Magnus, De secretis mulierum (On the Secrets of Women); and Julian of Norwich’s Showings, an autobiographical account of visions she experienced during an illness in 1373

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/17/virgins-mothers-monsters-late-medieval-readings-female-body-bounds/feed/ 0 The Transformative Nature of Gender: The Coding of St. Brigit of Kildare through Hagiography http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/26/the-transformative-nature-of-gender-the-coding-of-st-brigit-of-kildare-through-hagiography/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/26/the-transformative-nature-of-gender-the-coding-of-st-brigit-of-kildare-through-hagiography/#comments Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:46:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=43810 The Transformative Nature of Gender: The Coding of St. Brigit of Kildare through Hagiography Liliane Catherine Marcil-Johnston Master of Arts, The Department of Theology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada December (2012) Abstract This study examines how gender is portrayed in the hagiographic tradition surrounding St. Brigit of Kildare. In particular, it provides an in-depth look […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/26/the-transformative-nature-of-gender-the-coding-of-st-brigit-of-kildare-through-hagiography/feed/ 0 Julian of Norwich’s “Christ as Mother” and Medieval Constructions of Gender http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/13/40428/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/13/40428/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:59:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40428 Recent Christian feminists have revived an interest in women mystics and feminine religious imagery. In light of what most people generalize about medieval misogyny and about the veneration of the Virgin as a surrogate for a female divinity, Julian of Norwich's trope of Christ as Mother seems even more remarkable.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/13/40428/feed/ 0 Rhetorics of Pain and Desire: The Writings of the Middle English Mystics http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/03/rhetorics-of-pain-and-desire-the-writings-of-the-middle-english-mystics/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/03/rhetorics-of-pain-and-desire-the-writings-of-the-middle-english-mystics/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 06:17:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37714 This dissertation “Rhetorics of Pain and Desire: The Writings of the Middle English Mystics,” seeks to explore the connections between desire and pain in the writings of Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and Walter Hilton. All four writers develop a rhetoric that allows them to use pain and/or desire as a catalyst through which their writing becomes embodied.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/03/rhetorics-of-pain-and-desire-the-writings-of-the-middle-english-mystics/feed/ 0 Lordship, service and worship in Julian of Norwich http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/26/lordship-service-and-worship-in-julian-of-norwich/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/26/lordship-service-and-worship-in-julian-of-norwich/#comments Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:03:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35124 Both lord and servant, as Rosemary Horrox puts it, lived in ‘a society where standing was intimately bound up with “face” – what contemporaries called worship’.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/26/lordship-service-and-worship-in-julian-of-norwich/feed/ 0 Love, Labor, Liturgy: Languages of Service in Late Medieval England http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/14/love-labor-liturgy-languages-of-service-in-late-medieval-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/14/love-labor-liturgy-languages-of-service-in-late-medieval-england/#comments Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:48:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31030 Working with three major Middle English texts - William Langland's Piers Plowman, Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love, and Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde - my thesis argues that the languages of service available to these writers provided them with a rich set of metaphorical tools for expressing the relation between metaphysics and social practice.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/14/love-labor-liturgy-languages-of-service-in-late-medieval-england/feed/ 0 The Paradox of Evil: a Study of Elevation Through Oppression http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/18/the-paradox-of-evil-a-study-of-elevation-through-oppression/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/18/the-paradox-of-evil-a-study-of-elevation-through-oppression/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:51:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30313 For medieval mystical women, the ability to maintain two opposite concepts simultaneously seems to be requisite for spiritual development. Not only were women asked to comprehend humanity’s otherness from God, as women, they were assumed subservient to men and, paradoxically, as able to receive redemption as their male counterparts; women understood their nature as both inferior and worthy, lesser than and equal to.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/18/the-paradox-of-evil-a-study-of-elevation-through-oppression/feed/ 0 Through the veiled window: feminine autonomy, masculine authority, and discursive tension in anchoritic writings http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/05/through-the-veiled-window-feminine-autonomy-masculine-authority-and-discursive-tension-in-anchoritic-writings/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/05/through-the-veiled-window-feminine-autonomy-masculine-authority-and-discursive-tension-in-anchoritic-writings/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:37:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29078 Contemporary framings and traditional scholarly discussions of anchoritic women have tended to view them as powerless and silenced due to their life of permanent enclosure within their hermit's cell. This thesis argues for a more nuanced view of the personal freedom these women enjoyed and of the awareness of that freedom possessed by anchoresses and by the male religious authorities who supervised them

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/05/through-the-veiled-window-feminine-autonomy-masculine-authority-and-discursive-tension-in-anchoritic-writings/feed/ 0 An Anchorhold of Her Own: Female Anchoritic Literature in Thirteenth-Century England http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/09/an-anchorhold-of-her-own-female-anchoritic-literature-in-thirteenth-century-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/09/an-anchorhold-of-her-own-female-anchoritic-literature-in-thirteenth-century-england/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:54:24 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25206 An Anchorhold of Her Own: Female Anchoritic Literature in Thirteenth-Century England Roberston, Elizabeth  Equally in God’s Image: Women in the Middle Ages (1990) Abstract For all its extremes, anchoritism among medieval English women cannot be dismissed as an eccentric and inconsequential movement. In addition to its distinctive popularity, female anchoritism should be noted because it […]

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